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"A falta de ideas, me quité el pañuelo con la bandera brasileña del cuello y me puse a agitarlo como un loco, tratando de sacar al Paolo que llevaba dentro.
—¡ATRÁS, HORMIGAS ASQUEROSAS! —grité—. ¡BRASIL!"

"El caso es que tienes que perseverar. A veces los cambios tardan siglos en producirse.
—Solo que ahora soy mortal —repuse—. No tengo siglos.
—Pero tienes fuerza de voluntad —replicó Rea—. Tienes ímpetu y empuje mortales. Esas son cualidades de las que los dioses suelen carecer."

"—No te preocupes. Volveremos al amanecer.
La boca le tembló ligerísimamente.
—¿Cómo puedes estar tan seguro?
—Soy el dios del sol —dije, tratando de hacer acopio de más seguridad de la que sentía—. Yo siempre vuelvo al amanecer."

“Well, Leo isn’t here. He died. Then he came back to life. And if I see him again, I’ll kill him.”

“Nico,” I said at last, “shouldn’t you be sitting at the Hades table?” He shrugged. “Technically, yes. But if I sit alone at my table, strange things
happen. Cracks open in the floor. Zombies crawl out and start roaming around. It’s a mood disorder. I can’t control it. That’s what I told Chiron.” “And is it true?” I asked. Nico smiled thinly. “I have a note from my doctor.”
Will raised his hand. “I’m his doctor.”

“Nico,” I said at last, “shouldn’t you be sitting at the Hades table?” He shrugged. “Technically, yes. But if I sit alone at my table, strange things
happen. Cracks open in the floor. Zombies crawl out and start roaming around. It’s a mood disorder. I can’t control it. That’s what I told Chiron.” “And is it true?” I asked. Nico smiled thinly. “I have a note from my doctor.”
Will raised his hand. “I’m his doctor.”

“That pretty much describes my entire life: Because Poseidon.”

“You hear that, guys? A batch of cookies is depending on me. If you get me killed on the way to camp, I am going be ticked off.”

"Used to be goddy
Now uptown feeling shoddy
Bah, haiku don’t rhyme"